The Co-operators Group Ltd. / Groupe Co-operators limitée
Registration:
69
of
78
(2023-05-30
to
2023-07-01)
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
- Co-op Sector: To establish a framework that will promote the recognition and development of co-operatives in Canada and asks Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) to establish a national co-operative development strategy.
Call upon the Federal Government to support or invest in the Canadian Co-operative Investment Fund. To commit resources to build capacity in the co-op sector to promote co-operatives as a sustainable and well understood business model that can have significant impact on major policy.
Policies or Program
- Charitable sector: Policies, including those around the disbursement quota, to support programming and services empowering marginalized youth and individuals with mental health challenges to progress in their path towards employability.
- Clarification of Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) treatment of financial services.
- Climate Change Adaptation - Advancing flood resiliency, residential overland flood insurance, flood mapping, weather harden houses/changes in building codes as well as call for more public education programs on flood and climate risks to stress the urgency of the risks that Canadians face.
- Dental care: Raise awareness of the role private insurers play in dental care coverage and advocate for improvements to the current system.
- Fire Safety with respect to enhancing community resilience to wildfires and implementing a provision in the National Building Code of Canada for the mandatory installation of fire sprinklers in new residential home construction.
- Health care: Support affordable prescription drug system for Canadians and promote efforts toward universal mental health care.
- Resilient and Low-Carbon Economy: Support the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures to promote more consistent, comparable, and reliable disclosure of climate related information. Call upon the Government to support the work and recommendations of the Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance to reduce climate-risk exposure in Canada's markets and financial institutions. Contribute to the framework for a stable and reliable sustainable finance market. Support policies that catalyze a broad societal partnership to improve community resiliency.